"The attraction and superiority of California are..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?”

“The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.”

“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.”

“There is no place more delightful than home.”

“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”

“First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.”

“In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."”

“We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.”

“And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.”